[Solved]Synaptics Touchpad not working at all on Fujitsu Siemens UH552

Hi,I have just installed Arch on my Fujitsu Siemens UH552 laptop. Everything works except for the touchpad which seems to get loaded by Xorg, but when in X it doesn't work. I have tried both using /dev/input/event* and /dev/input/mouse0 as device paths, neither works.

xf86-input-evdev and xf86-input-synaptics are installed.I have tried running both with the default 10-evdev.conf, with 10-synaptics.conf, with both, and without both.

Re: [Solved]Synaptics Touchpad not working at all on Fujitsu Siemens UH552

Re: [Solved]Synaptics Touchpad not working at all on Fujitsu Siemens UH552

What is the output of grep /sys/class/input/event*/device/name ??

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Re: [Solved]Synaptics Touchpad not working at all on Fujitsu Siemens UH552

Boot up a fedora live cd/dvd/usb, press your fn-shortcut to activate it, hardreset the computer and boot up arch again, check if it works.

I read about this fix from another post here on the forums, and it solved my problem. Also when I compiled kernel 3.6-rc4 my toshiba acpi stuff started working out of the box in arch as well, so the fn-buttons would work. Anyway the fedorasolution is a quick fix and definitely worth a shot!

Re: [Solved]Synaptics Touchpad not working at all on Fujitsu Siemens UH552

I have tried doing that with both linux mint, and now fedora live usb. Neither one loads the touchpad correctly. So yeah, our problems weren't really related

Anyway, I tried looking into the

psmouse serio1: bad data from KBC - timeout

messages, and tried running psmouse proto (defined in /etc/modprobe.conf/psmouse.conf) as both raw and imps as per https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s … ion/206950 Unfortunately, that didn't solve anything. Using the raw setting meant that the touchpad wasn't loaded at all (as in not appearing in the Xorg.log at all).

The laptop is quite new, but at the same time what i figured from the touchpad vendor & product ID, the touchpad itself isn't. So it should technically work. Before installing arch i booted into windows to see if everything worked, and found no issues with the touchpad. So I have ruled out any hardware errors. Maybe its just the Fn-key that doesn't work yet in Linux? But that doesn't explain the "psmouse serio1: bad data from KBC - timeout" Any pointers to where I should look/ what commands I should run to delve deeper into this issue?